Reliance Retail has tied up with Microsoft to launch the concept of connected homes.
The tables have turned. Organised retail, which used to cite real estate as its first constraint, is being wooed by developers as there is a sudden surplus created by completion of pending projects and new construction. According to an industry analyst, the rental for a retailer used to constitute 4-5 per cent of its total revenue in the years 2001 and 2002, rising to 7-7.5 per cent in the later years. Industry analysts believe a retailer's profit would get eroded
Do not keep a large portion of your long-term portfolio in FDs.
Sellers, especially the smaller ones, are planning to go to court as well as move CCI as they fear that Walmart could bring multiple private labels in India and flood the e-commerce platform with its own products.
The issue will carry a small price band to make it affordable to the retail investor. The company will issue 3,736.15 million shares.
Enthused by its success in retail, the Kishore Biyani-led $2 billion Future Group will soon foray into the logistics business, investing more than Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) by 2010.
Still, the earliest India will get to experience Apple online will be early 2020 and the company's first fully-owned signature store should be up around 2022 -- almost two decades after it had opened its first store worldwide, writes Nivedita Mookerji.
Even as the traders and merchants in Kerala observed a hartal against the entry of multinationals in retail sector on Wednesday, pepper Futures market also witnessed major upheavals.
Retail chains may be struggling in the face of the economic slowdown, but Kishore Biyani's Future Group seems to be buoyant in the New Year, expecting to do well in the quarter ending March 2009.
R C Agarwal, promoter of beleaguered Vishal Retail, on Wednesday came out in support of the offer from Texas Pacific Group (TPG) in preference to that from Kishore Biyani's Future Group.
Retail investors usually get caught up in the frenzy of a bull market and burn their fingers in IPOs, warns Tinesh Bhasin.
In Nov last year, L&T Finance Holdings had told BSE it was not eligible to be the sponsor of an insurance business, as it was a subsidiary of L&T under the Irda norms
The facility is now available at 258 Big Bazaar and fbb stores in over 115 cities and towns across the country
Per capita income in India is increasing, including in tier-II and tier-III cites. In these cities the competition is less, as are the rentals. It is very viable as a business proposition to open showrooms in these cites.
Kishore Biyani-promoted Future group's venture capital arm, Future Ventures, has revived its plans to hit the capital market and will be initiating listing formalities by filing a prospectus with market regulator Sebi on Wednesday.
Future Consumer Enterprise Ltd, the food and FMCG arm of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, on Friday acquired south India-based convenience store chain Nilgiris for nearly Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
Local traders are evaluating other options rather in FDI.
Financial assets make a comeback as returns on physical assets falter.
IndianOil would get into retail trade in a big way this year, leveraging on its nation-wide network of petrol stations, as it seeks to make non-fuel business a driver of growth, company officials said on Monday.
The top 100 companies have accounted for 63% of the gains (Rs 51 trillion out of Rs 81 trillion), while firms beyond the top 100 have contributed 37 per cent (Rs 30 trillion).
Online biggies and global retail giants are working on being omnipresent in both the virtual and the real world to see what helps them get the numbers, says Karan Choudhury.
The company had reported a turnover of Rs 10,800 crore (Rs 108 billion) in the previous financial year.
Kishore Biyani, managing director, said the initial public offer would raise around Rs 2000 crore (Rs 2 billion), but refused to comment on the nature of the new company.
The big boys of India's traditional retail have finally come together to fight the onslaught of their online counterparts.
India's retail giants, including Kishore Biyani's Future Group, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail and Sunil Mittal-promoted Bharti group, have started negotiations with the railways for leasing land for retail development.
India is one of the top investment destinations in Asia for retail and consumer sector, which is expected to witness rapid growth, aided by its IT capabilities, global consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Thursday.
Operating margins have been the primary driver of corporate earnings in India in recent quarters, despite revenue growth suffering from weak consumer demand. Companies across sectors have reported a sharp improvement in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (Ebitda) margins over the past two years, benefiting from lower commodity and energy prices. Higher margins more than compensated for slower revenue growth, resulting in double-digit growth in net profit for five consecutive quarters.
The announcement comes in the wake of the consolidation of Future-Axiom's other mobile brands under the brand name 'One Mobile'. The company plans to open 1,500 stores and touch points in the country by December 2009, giving it a reach in 58 cities.
Retailers such as Future Axiom and Vmart have decided to consolidate their business by reaching out to unexplored markets outside major cities, believing them to have been relatively unaffected by the downturn. Future Axiom's mobile bazaar CEO, Ashy Sehgal said, "Instead of spending heavily on attracting more customers in overreached metropolitan markets, we can target the unheeded customer waiting for us in smaller cities."
The government on Friday proposed hiking the securities transaction tax on Futures & Options (F&O) contracts, a move that will increase the trading costs in the derivatives segment as well as help in curbing excessive trades. In the Finance Bill 2023, passed by the Lok Sabha on Friday, the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on options is proposed to be increased to 0.0625 per cent from 0.05 per cent and on futures contracts to 0.0125 from 0.01 per cent. Analysts opined that higher STT will shore up the government's revenues to some extent and also discourage excessive trading since a large number of retail traders are losing money in the segment.
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Tier-II cities are all set to witness good retail growth in near future.
It bought Rs 410 crore of electoral bonds between financial years 2021-22 and 2023-24, but Reliance said the company is not a subsidiary of any Reliance entity.
Festive season is the mainstay of most brick and mortar retail chains.
The Indian equity market clocked record average daily turnover (ADTV) in both the cash and derivatives segments in February amid a spike in volatility. The ADTV for the cash segment for both the exchanges combined came at Rs 1.27 trillion, while the same for the derivatives or the futures and options (F&O) segment stood at Rs 483 trillion in the previous month. The volumes for both cash and derivatives have almost doubled from a year ago on the back of rising retail participation in the world's fourth largest equity market.
Identifying Indian youth as engine for growth of retail sector, global professional services firm Ernst & Young said on Friday they offered a huge consuming audience for lifestyle and luxury products.
Though the exact amount of stake dilution is not known, Pantaloon Retail's Managing Director Kishore Biyani said the company would divest more than 20 per cent shares. Future Ventures will house the company's JVs and new ventures.
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The head of leading Indian bank ICICI Bank said on Monday he expected growth in the firm's retail business, which helped fuel better-than-expected third-quarter results, would continue into the fourth quarter.
